This book is about the crucial role that black religion has played in the United States as an imagined community or a united nation. The book argues that cultural images and interpretations of ...
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This book is about the crucial role that black religion has played in the United States as an imagined community or a united nation. The book argues that cultural images and interpretations of African American religion placed an enormous burden on black religious capacities as the source for black contributions to American culture until the 1940s. Attention to black religion as the chief bearer of meaning for black life was also a result of longstanding debates about what constituted the “human person” and an implicit assertion of the intellectual inferiority of peoples of African descent. Intellectual and religious capacities were reshaped and reconceptualized in various crucial historical moments in American history because of real world debates about blacks' place in the nation and continuing discussions about what it meant to be fully human. Only within the last half century has this older paradigm of black religion (and the concomitant assumption of a genetic deficiency in “intelligence”) been challenged with any degree of cultural authority. Black innate religiosity had to be denied before sufficient attention could be paid to actual proposals about black equal participation in the nation, though this should not be interpreted as a call for insufficient attention to the role of religion in the lives of African Americans and other ethnic groups.Less

The Burden of Black Religion

Curtis J. Evans

Published in print: 2008-07-01

This book is about the crucial role that black religion has played in the United States as an imagined community or a united nation. The book argues that cultural images and interpretations of African American religion placed an enormous burden on black religious capacities as the source for black contributions to American culture until the 1940s. Attention to black religion as the chief bearer of meaning for black life was also a result of longstanding debates about what constituted the “human person” and an implicit assertion of the intellectual inferiority of peoples of African descent. Intellectual and religious capacities were reshaped and reconceptualized in various crucial historical moments in American history because of real world debates about blacks' place in the nation and continuing discussions about what it meant to be fully human. Only within the last half century has this older paradigm of black religion (and the concomitant assumption of a genetic deficiency in “intelligence”) been challenged with any degree of cultural authority. Black innate religiosity had to be denied before sufficient attention could be paid to actual proposals about black equal participation in the nation, though this should not be interpreted as a call for insufficient attention to the role of religion in the lives of African Americans and other ethnic groups.

The chapters in this section provide a set of well‐documented examples that the socio‐demographic options and strategies that families and individuals pursue are powerfully influenced by the dynamic ...
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The chapters in this section provide a set of well‐documented examples that the socio‐demographic options and strategies that families and individuals pursue are powerfully influenced by the dynamic and gendered social and natural worlds or ‘imagined communities’ to which they owe allegiance. These studies show how demographic analysis can benefit from paying much greater attention to contexts and that this will require much more investigative, historical, and anthropological work and a much less rapid move to quantification and comparisons that deploy ‘scientific’ categories, taken off the peg. Time and space need to be problematised not merely controlled.Less

Editors' Introduction

Simon SzreterHania SholkamyA. Dharmalingam

Published in print: 2004-03-18

The chapters in this section provide a set of well‐documented examples that the socio‐demographic options and strategies that families and individuals pursue are powerfully influenced by the dynamic and gendered social and natural worlds or ‘imagined communities’ to which they owe allegiance. These studies show how demographic analysis can benefit from paying much greater attention to contexts and that this will require much more investigative, historical, and anthropological work and a much less rapid move to quantification and comparisons that deploy ‘scientific’ categories, taken off the peg. Time and space need to be problematised not merely controlled.

The functions and structure of a modern nationalist ideology are revealed through analysis of its national identity. Six components of national identity are explored; the ‘search for belonging’; ...
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The functions and structure of a modern nationalist ideology are revealed through analysis of its national identity. Six components of national identity are explored; the ‘search for belonging’; public legitimization in the world of nations; myth; culture; emotion and territory; and symbols and rituals. A further section analyses the behaviour of national identities in a context of political conflict. The issue of what is an appropriate relationship for Christians to have with their own national identity is then discussed using the theologian Miroslav Volf’s concept of ‘distance and belonging’.Less

National Identity and the Appeal of Nationalism

Patrick Mitchel

Published in print: 2003-10-30

The functions and structure of a modern nationalist ideology are revealed through analysis of its national identity. Six components of national identity are explored; the ‘search for belonging’; public legitimization in the world of nations; myth; culture; emotion and territory; and symbols and rituals. A further section analyses the behaviour of national identities in a context of political conflict. The issue of what is an appropriate relationship for Christians to have with their own national identity is then discussed using the theologian Miroslav Volf’s concept of ‘distance and belonging’.

Chapter 6 concentrates on public recollections of Scott the author. It begins with an analysis of the strategies Scott used to brand himself as the ‘author of Waverley’, and then goes on to give an ...
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Chapter 6 concentrates on public recollections of Scott the author. It begins with an analysis of the strategies Scott used to brand himself as the ‘author of Waverley’, and then goes on to give an account of key public commemorations of his memory: his funeral in 1832, the erection of the enormous Edinburgh monument 1840–6, and the lavish centenary celebrations of 1871, which is placed within a broader framework of the nineteenth-century cult of centenaries and the role of literary canons. An analysis is given of these performances of memory that highlights their role in creating embodied communities in conjunction with various ‘imagined communities’. The centenary of 1871 in particular showed how ‘Scott’ as memory site had become a transnational point of reference which different parties used to stake out their position and articulate their identity within the Empire and the imagined confederation of the English-speaking world.Less

Commemorating Scott: ‘That Imperial Man’

Ann Rigney

Published in print: 2012-03-15

Chapter 6 concentrates on public recollections of Scott the author. It begins with an analysis of the strategies Scott used to brand himself as the ‘author of Waverley’, and then goes on to give an account of key public commemorations of his memory: his funeral in 1832, the erection of the enormous Edinburgh monument 1840–6, and the lavish centenary celebrations of 1871, which is placed within a broader framework of the nineteenth-century cult of centenaries and the role of literary canons. An analysis is given of these performances of memory that highlights their role in creating embodied communities in conjunction with various ‘imagined communities’. The centenary of 1871 in particular showed how ‘Scott’ as memory site had become a transnational point of reference which different parties used to stake out their position and articulate their identity within the Empire and the imagined confederation of the English-speaking world.

German nation-building in the Reichsland was initiated through the establishment of a compulsory primary school system for all boys and girls. This chapter explores the gendering of lessons and ...
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German nation-building in the Reichsland was initiated through the establishment of a compulsory primary school system for all boys and girls. This chapter explores the gendering of lessons and textbooks, and questions the extent to which primary education successfully Germanized its female pupils. It also looks at reforms made by the state and women activists to girls' secondary schools, and the role played by women teachers who were seen as either agents of nation-building or potential enemies of the Reich. The second part of the chapter analyses several regional women's newspapers and journals, which served as educational supplements for housewives and mothers. The press was also a potential means of nationalizing the women of Alsace, by linking the regional with the national, the private with the public, and thus incorporating them into the ‘imagined community’ of German women.Less

Schooling the Step-Daughters of Germania: Education and the Press, 1871–1914

Elizabeth Vlossak

Published in print: 2010-09-30

German nation-building in the Reichsland was initiated through the establishment of a compulsory primary school system for all boys and girls. This chapter explores the gendering of lessons and textbooks, and questions the extent to which primary education successfully Germanized its female pupils. It also looks at reforms made by the state and women activists to girls' secondary schools, and the role played by women teachers who were seen as either agents of nation-building or potential enemies of the Reich. The second part of the chapter analyses several regional women's newspapers and journals, which served as educational supplements for housewives and mothers. The press was also a potential means of nationalizing the women of Alsace, by linking the regional with the national, the private with the public, and thus incorporating them into the ‘imagined community’ of German women.

This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then ...
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This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then traces how Worcester gleans political ideas from his reading of Cicero, Alain Chartier, and John of Wales. Worcester's political writing in The Boke of Noblesse is evaluated in the light of his reading. His humanist studies are not the only source of his ideas about the commonweal or common good, but his imaginary readership of humanists is essential to his dream of good governance and the commonweal.Less

William Worcester and the Commonweal of Readers

Daniel Wakelin

Published in print: 2007-07-01

This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then traces how Worcester gleans political ideas from his reading of Cicero, Alain Chartier, and John of Wales. Worcester's political writing in The Boke of Noblesse is evaluated in the light of his reading. His humanist studies are not the only source of his ideas about the commonweal or common good, but his imaginary readership of humanists is essential to his dream of good governance and the commonweal.

The Introduction argues that Dickens's consciousness of the emerging mass culture of his day was fundamental to his popular art and to his unique place in literary and cultural history. It ...
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The Introduction argues that Dickens's consciousness of the emerging mass culture of his day was fundamental to his popular art and to his unique place in literary and cultural history. It establishes that Dickens's popularity in his lifetime was so striking that it was seen as a cultural phenomenon in itself, transcending barriers of class, gender, age, and nation. It argues that numbers of readers were important to Dickens in a way that has not been fully appreciated, but that the statistical and sociological basis of Dickens's popularity is contested. It surveys Dickens's extra‐literary lives and suggests that the translatability of Dickens's works and image across multiple media has arguably been more crucial to his ability to establish a long‐term mass cultural presence than have sales of the novels themselves. It considers Dickens's mixed fortunes with literary critics and discusses theoretical approaches to the terms ‘mass culture’ and ‘popular culture’, and argues that ‘fancy’ or fantasy and a certain doubleness are integral to Dickens's cultural politics — in particular to his vision of an intimate public or imagined community existing between himself and a mass readership.Less

Introduction : ‘The Most Popular Author in the World’?

Juliet John

Published in print: 2010-11-01

The Introduction argues that Dickens's consciousness of the emerging mass culture of his day was fundamental to his popular art and to his unique place in literary and cultural history. It establishes that Dickens's popularity in his lifetime was so striking that it was seen as a cultural phenomenon in itself, transcending barriers of class, gender, age, and nation. It argues that numbers of readers were important to Dickens in a way that has not been fully appreciated, but that the statistical and sociological basis of Dickens's popularity is contested. It surveys Dickens's extra‐literary lives and suggests that the translatability of Dickens's works and image across multiple media has arguably been more crucial to his ability to establish a long‐term mass cultural presence than have sales of the novels themselves. It considers Dickens's mixed fortunes with literary critics and discusses theoretical approaches to the terms ‘mass culture’ and ‘popular culture’, and argues that ‘fancy’ or fantasy and a certain doubleness are integral to Dickens's cultural politics — in particular to his vision of an intimate public or imagined community existing between himself and a mass readership.

This chapter examines ‘the community of the liberty’, particularly in relation to the liberty's institutions and government. Historical and cultural traditions were fundamental to the development of ...
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This chapter examines ‘the community of the liberty’, particularly in relation to the liberty's institutions and government. Historical and cultural traditions were fundamental to the development of Durham's privileges, and also provided a strong basis for identification and loyalty through the ‘imagined communities’ of the Haliwerfolk or ‘the community of the bishopric between Tyne and Tees’. Equally, however, these imagined communities had a complex relationship to facts on the ground; and in particular the wapentake of Sadberge had an ambivalent relationship to the liberty as a whole. It is shown that the wapentake's ambiguous status was also reflected in the bishopric's government and administration.Less

Durham: Government, Administration and the Local Community

Matthew Holford

Published in print: 2010-03-31

This chapter examines ‘the community of the liberty’, particularly in relation to the liberty's institutions and government. Historical and cultural traditions were fundamental to the development of Durham's privileges, and also provided a strong basis for identification and loyalty through the ‘imagined communities’ of the Haliwerfolk or ‘the community of the bishopric between Tyne and Tees’. Equally, however, these imagined communities had a complex relationship to facts on the ground; and in particular the wapentake of Sadberge had an ambivalent relationship to the liberty as a whole. It is shown that the wapentake's ambiguous status was also reflected in the bishopric's government and administration.

This chapter explores travel literature that illustrates Gabriela Mistral's Poema de Chile. La historia oficial bears witness to the current emergence of new female political and historical subjects ...
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This chapter explores travel literature that illustrates Gabriela Mistral's Poema de Chile. La historia oficial bears witness to the current emergence of new female political and historical subjects in Latin America. It also discusses the early women collaborators of the Peruvian Revista Amaula. Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism investigate the idea of the nation as an imagined political community whose totality can never be experienced concretely. The writings of national icons, such as José Mármol, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and Juan Manuel de Rosas, are described. Rómulo Gallegos' Doña Bárbara and Teresa de la Parra's Las memorias de Mamá Blanca represent forms of female power and entitlement destroyed by modernization. The Poema de Chile reorganizes the literary patrimony in a poetry of movement and action which is not a poetry of heroics or transformation.Less

Women, Literature, and National Brotherhood

Published in print: 1992-02-25

This chapter explores travel literature that illustrates Gabriela Mistral's Poema de Chile. La historia oficial bears witness to the current emergence of new female political and historical subjects in Latin America. It also discusses the early women collaborators of the Peruvian Revista Amaula. Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism investigate the idea of the nation as an imagined political community whose totality can never be experienced concretely. The writings of national icons, such as José Mármol, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and Juan Manuel de Rosas, are described. Rómulo Gallegos' Doña Bárbara and Teresa de la Parra's Las memorias de Mamá Blanca represent forms of female power and entitlement destroyed by modernization. The Poema de Chile reorganizes the literary patrimony in a poetry of movement and action which is not a poetry of heroics or transformation.

This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, ...
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This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, the ‘imagined communities’ they nurtured, and how they helped the liberty's privileges to be maintained and developed.Less

Durham: History, Culture and Identity

Matthew Holford

Published in print: 2010-03-31

This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, the ‘imagined communities’ they nurtured, and how they helped the liberty's privileges to be maintained and developed.

This chapter explores Gujarat’s nineteenth-century path to Hindu communalism and the shaping of the Hindu nationalist project in the twentieth century. It begins with initiatives for social reform ...
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This chapter explores Gujarat’s nineteenth-century path to Hindu communalism and the shaping of the Hindu nationalist project in the twentieth century. It begins with initiatives for social reform that questioned and sought to change social and religious practices along western liberal and rational lines. It then moves to a more revivalist trend based on an original imagined community that had been sullied by invasions from the West and the East. Next comes the ideological and organizational apparatus of Hindu nationalism that has harnessed history and politics to generate an enduring movement, though not one without ups and downs. The latter undulations are traced against the politics of twentieth-century Gujarat. Events on the national stage form a backdrop to the narrative.Less

Reform, Revival and the Call for Hindu Rashtra

Nikita Sud

Published in print: 2012-06-21

This chapter explores Gujarat’s nineteenth-century path to Hindu communalism and the shaping of the Hindu nationalist project in the twentieth century. It begins with initiatives for social reform that questioned and sought to change social and religious practices along western liberal and rational lines. It then moves to a more revivalist trend based on an original imagined community that had been sullied by invasions from the West and the East. Next comes the ideological and organizational apparatus of Hindu nationalism that has harnessed history and politics to generate an enduring movement, though not one without ups and downs. The latter undulations are traced against the politics of twentieth-century Gujarat. Events on the national stage form a backdrop to the narrative.

This chapter by Joe Street traces the development of SNCC's concept of community, placing particular emphasis on the transition that occurred between the conclusion of the Mississippi Summer Project ...
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This chapter by Joe Street traces the development of SNCC's concept of community, placing particular emphasis on the transition that occurred between the conclusion of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964 and the expulsion of whites from the organization in 1967. The influx of new activists with fewer emotional and personal bonds to SNCC's original character transformed its biracial ideal of the “beloved community” into a concept more in tune with Benedict Anderson's notion of an “imagined community,” which gave expression to its long-standing ambivalence about integration. Rejecting the orthodoxy that interprets SNCC's development in terms of its decline as a redemptive organization, this suggests instead that its evolution was logical and understandable in relation to its shifting notion of community.Less

From Beloved Community to Imagined Community : SNCC's Intellectual Transformation

Joe Street

Published in print: 2012-08-05

This chapter by Joe Street traces the development of SNCC's concept of community, placing particular emphasis on the transition that occurred between the conclusion of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964 and the expulsion of whites from the organization in 1967. The influx of new activists with fewer emotional and personal bonds to SNCC's original character transformed its biracial ideal of the “beloved community” into a concept more in tune with Benedict Anderson's notion of an “imagined community,” which gave expression to its long-standing ambivalence about integration. Rejecting the orthodoxy that interprets SNCC's development in terms of its decline as a redemptive organization, this suggests instead that its evolution was logical and understandable in relation to its shifting notion of community.

“Imaginary Communities” examines the concept of the nation within Han Clothing Movement discourses to develop a new theory of nationalism. The analyses are based in the question: if nations are ...
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“Imaginary Communities” examines the concept of the nation within Han Clothing Movement discourses to develop a new theory of nationalism. The analyses are based in the question: if nations are imagined communities, how exactly are they imagined? Beginning from a dialogue with a movement enthusiast in Shenzhen, in which he presents the unexpected proposition that “today’s China is not the real China,” this chapter combines Anderson’s materialist approach with Smith’s ethnosymbolic approach to the nation to reinterpret imagined communities, structured around mundane, repetitive rituals and homogenous, empty time, as imaginary communities, structured around larger than life fantasies which illusorily incorporate individuals through the narrative of national identity. This concept of imaginary communities is thenfounded in the distinction between the nation as an ideal, which I call the fantastic national imaginary, and the nation as reality, characterized by mundane and disappointing experience. Insofar as the solution to the failure of national identity is sought in the source of this dilemma, namely the larger than life national fantasy, the nation is analyzed herein as a self-reproducing system, perpetuated over time precisely in its failure.Less

Kevin Carrico

Published in print: 2017-08-22

“Imaginary Communities” examines the concept of the nation within Han Clothing Movement discourses to develop a new theory of nationalism. The analyses are based in the question: if nations are imagined communities, how exactly are they imagined? Beginning from a dialogue with a movement enthusiast in Shenzhen, in which he presents the unexpected proposition that “today’s China is not the real China,” this chapter combines Anderson’s materialist approach with Smith’s ethnosymbolic approach to the nation to reinterpret imagined communities, structured around mundane, repetitive rituals and homogenous, empty time, as imaginary communities, structured around larger than life fantasies which illusorily incorporate individuals through the narrative of national identity. This concept of imaginary communities is thenfounded in the distinction between the nation as an ideal, which I call the fantastic national imaginary, and the nation as reality, characterized by mundane and disappointing experience. Insofar as the solution to the failure of national identity is sought in the source of this dilemma, namely the larger than life national fantasy, the nation is analyzed herein as a self-reproducing system, perpetuated over time precisely in its failure.

Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations and Politics

Chapter 2 discusses nations and nationalism in the digital age. It reviews how scholars have made sense of nationalism in the past, and it argues that the most useful way to view nations and ...
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Chapter 2 discusses nations and nationalism in the digital age. It reviews how scholars have made sense of nationalism in the past, and it argues that the most useful way to view nations and nationalism is as modern technologies. It makes the case, as scholars like Benedict Anderson and Michael Billig have done before, that human beings ‘imagine’ nations, and that they do so largely through communication practices. To understand these communication practices, the chapter proposes that we view social groups as networked communities. It lays out an original theory of nations and nationalism, and it goes on to discuss nationalism in the Chinese context. The chapter concludes by making the case that a diverse range of actors ‘programme’ the networks of national communities through discursive practices in order to shift what the nation means. Nationalism, then, becomes an emergent property of these networked activities.Less

Nationalism and Its Digital Modes

Florian Schneider

Published in print: 2018-09-10

Chapter 2 discusses nations and nationalism in the digital age. It reviews how scholars have made sense of nationalism in the past, and it argues that the most useful way to view nations and nationalism is as modern technologies. It makes the case, as scholars like Benedict Anderson and Michael Billig have done before, that human beings ‘imagine’ nations, and that they do so largely through communication practices. To understand these communication practices, the chapter proposes that we view social groups as networked communities. It lays out an original theory of nations and nationalism, and it goes on to discuss nationalism in the Chinese context. The chapter concludes by making the case that a diverse range of actors ‘programme’ the networks of national communities through discursive practices in order to shift what the nation means. Nationalism, then, becomes an emergent property of these networked activities.

This chapter identifies a set of white middle-class discourses and practices that justify the marginalisation of wealthy and lower-class Asian residents from participation in the social networks and ...
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This chapter identifies a set of white middle-class discourses and practices that justify the marginalisation of wealthy and lower-class Asian residents from participation in the social networks and activities that make up the patterns of the imagined ‘village’ community. It then studies the twists and turns that form the apparent ‘acceptance’ of middle-class white residents of the Asian family who own and run a shop in the area. The chapter also scrutinises their perceptions of the supposed ‘social isolation’ of the minority of very wealthy Asian residents who are located in the most prosperous area of the ‘village’.Less

Village People : Race, class, nation and the community spirit

Katharine Tyler

Published in print: 2006-03-22

This chapter identifies a set of white middle-class discourses and practices that justify the marginalisation of wealthy and lower-class Asian residents from participation in the social networks and activities that make up the patterns of the imagined ‘village’ community. It then studies the twists and turns that form the apparent ‘acceptance’ of middle-class white residents of the Asian family who own and run a shop in the area. The chapter also scrutinises their perceptions of the supposed ‘social isolation’ of the minority of very wealthy Asian residents who are located in the most prosperous area of the ‘village’.

The dramatic rise of the guerrilla movement after the battle of Karama created a new myth. ‘To declare Palestinian identity no longer means that one is a “refugee” or second-class citizen. Rather, it ...
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The dramatic rise of the guerrilla movement after the battle of Karama created a new myth. ‘To declare Palestinian identity no longer means that one is a “refugee” or second-class citizen. Rather, it is a declaration that arouses pride, because the Palestinian has become the fida'i or revolutionary who bears arms.’ Armed struggle was the new substance of the ‘imagined community’ of the Palestinians. Guerrilla literature developed this theme by referring to past examples of Palestinian rebellion and emphasizing the continuity of conflict and the tradition of resistance, while political posters and media artwork drew heavily on peasant imagery, symbolizing the Palestinians by various images. These images were repeated by Palestinian artists. Furthermore, the combination of the 1967 war and the conscious action of the various popular, political, and military organizations' led to a reawakening of the people's sense of national identity.Less

Guerrilla War in Theory and Practice

Yezid Sayigh

Published in print: 1999-11-04

The dramatic rise of the guerrilla movement after the battle of Karama created a new myth. ‘To declare Palestinian identity no longer means that one is a “refugee” or second-class citizen. Rather, it is a declaration that arouses pride, because the Palestinian has become the fida'i or revolutionary who bears arms.’ Armed struggle was the new substance of the ‘imagined community’ of the Palestinians. Guerrilla literature developed this theme by referring to past examples of Palestinian rebellion and emphasizing the continuity of conflict and the tradition of resistance, while political posters and media artwork drew heavily on peasant imagery, symbolizing the Palestinians by various images. These images were repeated by Palestinian artists. Furthermore, the combination of the 1967 war and the conscious action of the various popular, political, and military organizations' led to a reawakening of the people's sense of national identity.

This chapter defines the dominant idioms of Polishness for every specific configuration of an imagined community, which allows us to draw an analytical model of the Polish national imagination of the ...
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This chapter defines the dominant idioms of Polishness for every specific configuration of an imagined community, which allows us to draw an analytical model of the Polish national imagination of the 1830s–1840s. By analyzing the language intellectuals used when speaking about Polishness, that is, the variety of cultural and political idioms, it shows how intellectuals imagined and represented Polish nationality, how inclusive it was, and whether it depended on different ideological stances.Less

Reconsidering Nationality : Poland

Published in print: 2012-05-16

This chapter defines the dominant idioms of Polishness for every specific configuration of an imagined community, which allows us to draw an analytical model of the Polish national imagination of the 1830s–1840s. By analyzing the language intellectuals used when speaking about Polishness, that is, the variety of cultural and political idioms, it shows how intellectuals imagined and represented Polish nationality, how inclusive it was, and whether it depended on different ideological stances.

This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for ...
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This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Central America but also Spain, and even the United States – the sixth largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. This intercontinental space is connected physically by satellite communication, and culturally by a common language and heritage which binds it as both a ‘geolinguistic region’ and an ‘imagined community’ which certain media corporations, Latin American and North American, seek to exploit. A similar phenomenon with regard to Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world is also examined, with special attention to its comparable features and points of exchange with the Spanish-speaking world. The book chronicles and analyses the development and structure of the globalisation of these markets as a ‘Latin world’.Less

Latin American Television : A Global View

John Sinclair

Published in print: 1998-12-17

This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Central America but also Spain, and even the United States – the sixth largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. This intercontinental space is connected physically by satellite communication, and culturally by a common language and heritage which binds it as both a ‘geolinguistic region’ and an ‘imagined community’ which certain media corporations, Latin American and North American, seek to exploit. A similar phenomenon with regard to Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world is also examined, with special attention to its comparable features and points of exchange with the Spanish-speaking world. The book chronicles and analyses the development and structure of the globalisation of these markets as a ‘Latin world’.

This chapter focuses on the colonies outside Europe or what are referred to as “imagined communities,” which were shaped by Europeans and European ideas. The European imagination also clearly ...
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This chapter focuses on the colonies outside Europe or what are referred to as “imagined communities,” which were shaped by Europeans and European ideas. The European imagination also clearly contributed to determining the form of Palestine's Zionist cities and villages and the societies they contained. However, the Zionist imagination was different from that of European colonizers. In telling the story of Zionist settlement, the chapter details the extent to which models for organizing and developing Palestine were borrowed from the European experience. These models were not simply transplanted. What makes the case of Jewish Palestine distinctive is that, unlike in the experience of most other non-European countries, Zionists imposed European ideas and forms on themselves.Less

“Imagined Communities” : The Zionist Variation

S. Ilan Troen

Published in print: 2003-05-11

This chapter focuses on the colonies outside Europe or what are referred to as “imagined communities,” which were shaped by Europeans and European ideas. The European imagination also clearly contributed to determining the form of Palestine's Zionist cities and villages and the societies they contained. However, the Zionist imagination was different from that of European colonizers. In telling the story of Zionist settlement, the chapter details the extent to which models for organizing and developing Palestine were borrowed from the European experience. These models were not simply transplanted. What makes the case of Jewish Palestine distinctive is that, unlike in the experience of most other non-European countries, Zionists imposed European ideas and forms on themselves.

Claire Tupling examines the case study of a Free School to challenge whether Free Schools are really designed to be responsive to the needs of local communities.
She argues Free Schools may not ...
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Claire Tupling examines the case study of a Free School to challenge whether Free Schools are really designed to be responsive to the needs of local communities.
She argues Free Schools may not reflect the diversity of local communities, failing to offer increased educational opportunities for the most disadvantaged pupils.
Thus, the lack of available school places within the local community threatens the very existence of itself as community.
She draws upon the concept of ‘imagined communities’ to demonstrates how the term community is employed in local political and popular discourses to identify, and secure a school for, the ideal pupil.
With the result that disadvantaged pupils who should be at the school are deemed as belonging outside of the community.Less

A school for our community:critically assessing discourses of marginality in the establishment of a free school

Claire Tupling

Published in print: 2017-06-28

Claire Tupling examines the case study of a Free School to challenge whether Free Schools are really designed to be responsive to the needs of local communities.
She argues Free Schools may not reflect the diversity of local communities, failing to offer increased educational opportunities for the most disadvantaged pupils.
Thus, the lack of available school places within the local community threatens the very existence of itself as community.
She draws upon the concept of ‘imagined communities’ to demonstrates how the term community is employed in local political and popular discourses to identify, and secure a school for, the ideal pupil.
With the result that disadvantaged pupils who should be at the school are deemed as belonging outside of the community.